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 <p>The Objective-c Foundation Classes (OFC) is a general library
 written in the objective-c language. Its main purpose is to make it easier
 to develop applications.</p>
 <p>The classes in the library are grouped in five clusters:</p>
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   <li>DataTypes - integer, text string, fraction, bitarray ...</li>
   <li>Collections - list, hash table, AVL and binary tree ...</li>
   <li>Network - TCP/UDP server and client ...</li>
   <li>C-library wrappers - DBM, Sockets, MD5, Regular expressions, Timer ...</li>
   <li>Compound - Argument parser, Calendar, Finite State Machine, Tokenizer ...</li>
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 <p>See <a href="classes.html">classes</a> for an overview of all classes
 and protocols in the library.</p>
 <p>The documentation of the library can be browsed in
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